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"WD7500BPKT" is it. According to the Spec. sheet, that drive has 512-byte logical sectors ("User sectors per drive 1,465,149,168"), so I don't understand the "Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)" output from fdisk. What does

Code:

hdparm -I /dev/sdc | grep 'Sector size'

report about the physical and logical sector sizes?

From what I've seen browsing the clonezilla forums, I'm not optimistic about it's ability to work with 4096-byte logical sectors, though no one has yet responded to my specific query. That's why I'd like to be sure that's not what you're dealing with.